Show it Decen5Sr' 2003 A4 The Herald journal Ou view s corner f 'The Herald Journal’s main headline on Monday declared in recent frtml page article large bold letters “We got him" alHuit the retirement of long-timwoiids were a direct quote The Cache Coinmuniiy Food Pantry from a US general announcing : Director Joyce Tarbei made refer- the capture of Saddam and as it cnee to sotne of the odd foods ' happens several newspapers donated by people over the years around the nation chose the same llowcycr the article didn't mcn- quote to display at the top’ of their i i )ii that Tarbet actually pul front pages it igeihcr a collection of the unique A Ux)k at the Web site for the f donations which is on display at Newscum (wwwncwseumorg) lire food bank: ' which displays front pages from With the exception of the ' all over die world each day canned "fish balls" and "Alaskan reveals a handful of other head-- reindeer : lines used by multiple newspapers chunked in on Monday The most popular in gravy’ most addition to “We Got Him” and of the items ' i just “Got Him” were “Ace in the aren't actuHole" and “Caught like a rat" ally strange both of which were also quotes bulhavct from military spokcspcoplc earned a ' Below on a mock front page is place in the a headline no newspaper used but collection by virtue of their age ope that an HJ staff member light- tV packaged imKiujs ftm a bygone A V - e' ‘ 1 ' : - : MopS?n ihmes Dems did about-face on Saddam '' : ! f farivl said a Urt of the old stuff : Inund its way to the pantry in i millions t rointhc e residents who had died ' like several unased bars of FclV Napt ha laundry soap that came from the basement of a deceased docior-’-s house There-ialso sonic vegetable 'yiicky" letlvO that apparently had been stored in a hoine for years: v People have asked Tarbet if she plaiisto lake the collection (which could be worth stime money) w hen she leaves the Ideal ebafita- Me organization after 15ycars" he answcr is no “I feel likeit ' ' tv ngt to the fmid pantry" she said Ijbcal residents interested in ivnising the display arc welcome to visjt the foodbank'at 359 S'-- ' Mailt anytime she said' have been the most creative head nalion jn not sure we would we're frankly "S long-tim- HtfOs-vinta- : By William Rusher Newspaper Enterprise Association V Herald : ' vri Journal ge J Bad Hair Day : ' vf! '' ' ' tance to the American occupation of ' Iraq and here at home it will force the Democrats to fall back' on less vulnerable ways of criticizing President Bush One way which the Democrats have been testing gingerly in recent weeks is to charge that Bush simply tricked America into attacking Iraq Rob Reiner the noisily liberal actor put it succinctly in introducing v Howard Dean to a Democratic audi-en- ce in lowa rnrently: ‘’Geoige Bush said we had to go into Iraq ’ k because it had weapons of mass destruction He lied-- ’ Big itcws'devchipments like the capturebf Saddam Hussein chal-'Icngenewspapcr editors to come !up wit It headlines worthy of the fiisuiric event ’ headlines that iiiight lie viewed by people years Vn the future : - i : v V ' 1i A HMUUier s"’" talro In the editor: Thiv leUvr is in resHthse icis Urn hiye been receiving ' ' '' ' eon- - - vrriuiie llie'iihernule holiday i t iuVtV I uiulerstiuui that there is a yllnaFarnady (nT mi written rules about what is 'Logan eon-' a in behavior f iii’piopriate'sikial ' 'keil vi iii ii j hi A “CJ ill to theCommu-- ' itity"' should truly Ik something lor in ihtr commu'nhy inelud-- - r ' this type: of sKial setting! arilCieS:W : would like to think that we etuild all bea - ihtte more accepting of other pas- - ’ y cxpujsioi) froni the venue I agree ith C- - l Alien that It' was brave'' A iiid and imporlant forhose tWo ‘V f oung ladies to escort their “sptx-ia- l needs" friends to the concert I would like to suggest that Cathy Short make some '‘special needs" : ' - - ed ik tion in the future rinno To the editor: would likeiotlmnk you foryour excellent article's on the results of school testing This is avery com if faced with anoth- -' " y — such as Stalin Hitler Mao or Pol Pot who' caused the deaths' of hundreds of thousands even millions of innocent people in theirowii countries Sad 20th-centur- nr haiL mnntit fjrr:r' nnH ' Nabbing Mr Hussein brings at least some justice to the past centu- nomne recora ormgss ehnuna- 01 Citizens by their own dictators -- a record ir which none of the worst publish results without a perpetrators was ever teld (o account gixxl explanation of what they mean'' I would encourage you to continue to ' n a court y f noW this fallen The of image provide Other informative articles dictator’s cowardice after being like this one ! y y taught should even give the world Brilliant more courage lo act without hesita- lie ' " ' ! Logan -- : destriic-tion'’SenTf- Christian Science Monitor' 7- School testing they in v f all the most ruthless tyrants : noimpkidy uigthsehmay should behave imdeistaiuihow ' National view of the -- c ' friends of her own-Shmay be sur- - v find herself to gigglihg more prised J embraces people for their differences noi esemt them out the an Ici-f- tii-th- ' ’ Ull ' s ( best-inform- ed ' Youirview : : - “V chemical weapons throughout his country” A1 Gore Sept 23 2002 V " We are in possession of what I V think to he compelling evidence that Saddam Hussein has ' a developing capacity for the production and stor-a- ge of weapons of mass destruc- - ’ tion” Sen Bob Graham (chairman ' of die Senate Intelligence Commit-tee) Dec 8 2002 ' Now' when President Bush made liar' r But before Democratic orators fol- - exactly the same charges in justify- low Reiner down that seductive path ing our attack on Iraq there were just three possibilities Either’(l) the they had better look over their shoulabove Democrats were conscious der and notice what prominent Democrats were saying according to liars and Bush was just a belated media sources just a few years ago: ' joiner of their conspiracy or (2) they ' "We want ib seriously diminish were misledhy faulty intelligence the threat posed by Iraq's weapons of and there is no reason to suppose mass destruction program” Presi- Bush wasn't just as misled as they were or (3) they were and still are' dent Clinton Feb 17 1998 ' "(T)he risk that the leaders of right about Iraqis weapons of mass ' ' destruction (as on this theory time (Iraq) will use nuclear chemical or or us will in due course demonstrate) and our biological weapons against allies is the greatessecurity risk we so was and is President Bush In short whatever theory the ' face” Secretary of State Madeleine ' Democrats Feb 1998 18: Albright adopt to justify the above-quote- d to respond statements of their ‘’(We) urge you leaders highest and effectively to the threat posed by will serve' equally well tp justify Iraq's refusal to end its weapons of mass destruction programs” Letter v Bush to president Clinton signed by Sens How about it jadies and gentle- - ' j men' what's Tom I 'in A rt ftl I a' Carl Levin John your choice? 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"We have known for many years William Rusher is a Distinguished Felthat Saddam Hussein is seeking and ' low of the Oaramore institute for the mass of developing weapons i ano ronuc&j Kennedy fall 2002 ' ouxjyoT latesniansnip ‘‘We know (Saddam) has stored V Philosophy His syndicated column is titled Conservative Advocate” : secret supplies' of biological and : ' devastating blow to the whole concept of : ’ ' y dragging Saddam Hussein in a farm hut out of his hidey-hol- e 4th Infantry Divi “! ofTikrit- sion has inflicted a severe blow to the Democrats' thesis that everything is going badly in Iraq Counting the number of schools that have reopened has never been ajvcry con- yincing response to the almost daily reports oforte can soldiers' killed by ter- rorists But the capture of " Saddam is a jSSVS I - B or two Ameri- T mU ' Reiner is peddling the theory that Iraq never had any weapons of mass destruction or had destroyed them before the American attack in March and that Bush knew ir Since no caches of such weapons have yet beeq found the charge has at least a superficial plausibility All we peed to do to make it meshr with the known facts is assume that Bush is a er iarge:scale atrocity by a totalitari- -' fan regime ' Under Stalin the death toll in the Soviet Union was some 27 million Hitlet was resppnsible for the killing pf 6 million Jews'and many others under Nazi rule Mao’s actions led to mote than 30 million Chinese dyings In Pol Pot's tiny Cdmbodid anesti- mated 20 percent of the people per- idled either by1 execution or '' wholesale malign neglect -- Mr Hussein’s killing record niay he between 300000 and a million (out 0f 2j million Iraqis) depending on the count of mass graves now ': ' : going on ' Sifch large numbers aren’t merely “human rights violations" They are ' ' in their own (im)mof Clbss f Through the late 20th century and up until pow the world has largely stood by as some 2 million civilians : f O' The have died in $udan's civil war and as upwards of 2 million people have ' - starved or been executed in North ! 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